Watch this BEFORE using a Continuous Glucose Monitor for weight loss

continuous glucose monitors are all the rage right 
now but is it worth it for weight loss today I'm   going to do a ruthless review of a glucose monitor 
after wearing it myself for over six months do   they actually help with weight loss is it a waste 
of money especially if your goal is weight loss   or is there value in it so we're going to break it 
down today in this video hey guys welcome back to   my tree if you're not familiar what a continuous 
glucose monitor is it's literally a little device   that you attach to the back of your arm it doesn't 
hurt you don't even feel it you clip it on you pay   for a yearly membership to use the app plus these 
suckers are pretty expensive sometimes over 200 a   month just for the two monitors to attach to and 
200 a year for the app to actually track it now   there are some pros and cons there are some things 
that I've found with these monitors that can help   you and there's some things that could hold you 
back from your goals so I'm going to share with   you guys my thoughts on that today so you can 
figure out if this is the type of investment you   want to make for yourself for your Optimal Health 
for your future I wore the continuous glucose   monitor for six months my goal was weight loss 
at the time I was following a low carb ketogenic   lifestyle okay what that means is the foods that 
I was eating was not gonna cause a glucose Spike   unless I went off keto and I ate something you 
know with higher carbohydrates maybe had a cheat   day and then that's when I would see the glucose 
Spike from that so over the course of six months   my glucose remained incredibly stable I had scores 
of 97 within the levels app levels is the um the   glucose blender I was using very high metabolic 
scores I'm I'm entering my food in I'm looking   at this and I'm like wow I am doing amazing 
I'm going to reach all my body goals because   my glucose is so stable there's nothing my body 
can do other than lose the body fat right well I   was wrong over the course of those six months 
I not only didn't lose anything but I gained   wait how is it possible to have completely flat 
and stable glucose and be tracking it all on a   monitor 24 7 and gain weight well this is where 
I think the glucose monitor can actually hold   you back and might work against you versus for 
you so first things first let's talk about the   benefits of the glucose monitor and who it may 
be right for so the glucose monitor I think on   a positive side is helpful to kind of get to know 
your body on a deeper level to see how food reacts   to your body and how your body responds to food 
and how it rebounds from different foods and that   sort of thing I think that's kind of cool also if 
someone is maybe trying to come away from a very   high processed already very high packaged maybe a 
lot of fast food type of diet I could see how the   glucose monitor would motivate you to start making 
making some more whole food choices to start   making a change in that direction right I can see 
how that would be a positive change and influence   the other thing that it is very motivating to 
see that you're you're doing the right thing in   the mind of the app and what the app tells you is 
the right thing now depending on your goal if your   goal is simply to have stable glucose then yes 
a glucose monitor like this is going to help you   achieve that goal if your actual goal is to lose 
body fat then a glucose monitor is not necessarily   going to do that for you and here is why I think 
it could be you know what the cons are from that   as an example for me while I was keto low glucose 
stable all the time and didn't lose any weight I   I by using the actual monitor I became obsessed 
with checking my glucose constantly throughout   the day I started having a bad relationship with 
food I started thinking of food as either good   or bad versus is this healthy is this what my 
body needs at this moment and so that I think   is a major drawback of this the next thing um 
once I decided to take the glucose monitor off   I decided to do that because I made a shift and 
more so focusing on like my microbiome health   and what my microbiome needed is is higher in 
carb and showing up on the glucose monitor it   can Spike my glucose now remember my goal 
is fat loss not just to have stable blood   glucose I want to achieve fat loss but also 
optimize my health once I made this shift for   myself and I started seeing these spikes on my 
glucose monitor it started making me feel like I   was doing the wrong thing and it started making 
me feel like oh my gosh my glucose is spiking   what's gonna have I'm gonna gain weight now 
because my glucose is spiking um so I decided   to take the glucose monitor off at that point once 
I was like I'm healing my microbiome this is going   to require me to start eating oatmeal to start 
eating sweet potatoes and and different types   of foods that are not going to be simply foods 
to please the glucose monitor so what happened   to me after that point was I started healing 
my relationship with food so I started going   um months a couple months without worrying if I'm 
having stable glucose but more so focusing in on   eating the foods to heal my microbiome and then 
what happened from that point is I probably had   a single spike a day because I was consuming I'm 
intermittent fasting and I was using this with   omad which means I'm doing one meal a day so I'm 
having one glucose spike a day and then I'm going   a long period without spikes now if you're eating 
all day long probably a glucose monitor is very   helpful and maybe spiking your glucose all day 
long is going to keep you stalled out towards   your goals I knew in my mind I'm having one meal 
so clearly I can only have one glucose spike in   that meal and so I was okay with that one glucose 
bike no big deal my body can rebound from that I'm   giving it a nice long period of fasted time after 
that I lost 24 pounds in the three months since I   took the glucose monitor off and I also quit keto 
and I also eating started eating more carbs and   I also healed my relationship with food the first 
month I lost 15 pounds and I was not eating really   that healthy of foods I was just eating one meal 
a day and it was whatever I wanted sometimes it's   french fries sometimes it's whatever I just wanted 
to heal my relationship with food and I lost a ton   of weight that first month and then the second 
month I lost five pounds and the next month and   I lost another four pound and then it ended up 
being 24 pounds that's just a little background   about me getting back to the continuous glucose 
monitor then I as I healed my microbiome I started   craving more whole plant type foods so over the 
last couple weeks I started eating more of like   a plant-based lifestyle and then I was curious 
I wonder what's going on with my glucose since I   started eating a plant-based lifestyle so I put 
I have two I had two in stock an entire month's   worth so I put one on okay so I've got it on now 
it's been about a week since I've had this glucose   monitor on and guess what I see my glucose spiking 
and it will spike it will Spike like quite a bit   you know between 34 to 50 point points it will 
Spike from the whole plant foods that I'm eating   and then it will come back down and then it'll 
be at Baseline and it will rebound very quickly   so it's not like I'm either staying spiked or 
anything like that all right so I'm spiking   every day so I know I'm spiking every day but when 
I see it on my monitor it does give me a negative   feeling like I'm doing something wrong however I'm 
feeding my body Whole Foods fruits vegetables all   of these amazing Foods and I know I'm eating 
the right types of foods for my body and so   that in itself is kind of a disconnect um the next 
thing is on the glucose monitor my glucose spikes   like a lot with sweet potato but not very much 
with a white potato now sweet potatoes are full   of antioxidants and have a ton of really great 
nutrition especially for the gut microbiome and so   what is more important to me spiking my glucose or 
giving my body the antioxidants and the food from   my microbiome as one of the superfoods that came 
up on my microbiome test it's a clear choice for   me but if I didn't have this knowledge I wouldn't 
know the difference right so it doesn't mean that   a food is bad for you if you have a glucose 
Spike from it now remember this is just my   opinion okay based on my own personal experience 
so the other thing is there is such a thing as   meal timing right haven't you heard that you can 
minimize a glucose Spike if you eat protein first   do you know why that is guys think about this 
logically if you eat protein first and and then   have a lower glucose Spike from the carbs you eat 
second that means that the protein is spiking your   blood insulin so that when you consume the carbs 
it's just getting shuttled into storage quicker   so it's not sticking around your bloodstream 
is that necessarily a good thing maybe not   necessarily depending on if you're just a healthy 
person focusing on fat loss it doesn't really you   don't necessarily need that glucose to be out 
of your system so super quick your body might   actually need it in your blood to then do what it 
needs to do for your brain and stuff like that and   to use it and to burn it versus storing it so 
put that into perspective because I know a lot   of we've heard this right and I've talked about 
this even in previous videos because while I was   using the glucose monitor I would share about it 
I would share my results I used it to like compare   different foods and stuff I talked about the meal 
timing and and the glucose Spike It wasn't until   after I started eating like really the plant-based 
Whole Foods and I'm eating very nutritious healthy   foods for my body that I recognize that the 
glucose monitor can actually stop you from   eating healthful Foods just because it gives you 
a glucose Spike if you wear it I think it's great   and I think it's fine as long as you use it within 
your mindset of is this taking me away from eating   healthier foods or is this taking me away from 
eating unhealthy Foods if it's taking you away   from eating some healthy foods then maybe it's not 
very good after this one is up this two weeks I'm   not putting another one back on I'm just not doing 
it it's very toxic for me in my for my mental   health to be thinking of food as good and bad at 
this point in my life and in my journey because   I'm continually improving my body composition 
eating these healthy foods by focusing on my   microbiome now I'm investing my money in separate 
places so instead of the glucose monitor I invest   it in these microbiome tests so I can check that 
out and see what has changed so I know what types   of foods I should be focusing on and eating 
regardless of the glucose Spike that might come   from it now you might have been using a glucose 
monitor and it might be moving you forward you   might be losing weight you might be achieving your 
goals and that would be the case if you're coming   from a situation where maybe you were just eating 
the standard American diet all day long and then   you're moving into a position where now all of a 
sudden you're more mindful of eating Whole Foods   and eating less processed foods right now there's 
a way to eat a ketogenic diet in an unhealthy way   in a healthy way but for me I stayed on it for way 
too long that was my problem and it created a lot   of inflammation even though my glucose levels 
were low so as you embark on your journey to   reach your health goals hopefully this helps you 
because this is a major investment because it's   very expensive to do this type of monitoring 
the other thing is it's a little strange and   a little odd that my glucose would spike higher 
here when I would do a workout then when I eat   a carb heavy meal so and then they say having a 
spike from a workout is good but having a spike   from food is bad so it doesn't make sense I would 
think any Spike would be bad if a spike is a spike   right a spike in clear glucose is a spike in your 
glucose whether it's coming from stored glycogen   that is going into your bloodstream because of 
the exercise or you're consuming it and it's in   your bloodstream it's in your bloodstream anyway 
so doesn't isn't that strange but then also when   you take a shower or go into a hot tub like I 
do my glucose again will Spike higher so I will   have a very carb heavy meal we're talking 150 to 
200 grams of carbs within a single meal and my   glucose will Spike higher when I take a shower 
and have like heat on me then from that meal   okay so are they like should we not take showers 
like I don't think we should worry so much about   having completely stable glucose depending on the 
goal and I want to remind you guys depending on   the goal if you have diabetes and you are um on a 
glucose monitor to monitor that for health reasons   that's totally different okay I'm talking about 
just the regularly healthy person who's putting   on a glucose monitor and once again if you feel 
like it's helping you move forward to your goals   then maybe it's a good thing if you think it is 
actually getting in your head and giving you this   bad relationship with food and is actually taking 
you in the opposite direction and making you   stop eating some of the variety of the healthy 
carb Rich fruits and vegetables and Foods out   there then maybe that's not actually going to 
improve your health and move you forward into   a positive direction right I'm curious have 
you tried a glucose monitor before were you   thinking about trying a glucose monitor um uh 
the one that I use levels if you still want to   do it and you're like you know what I think this 
is going to be a great thing for me then that's   amazing I'll put the link in the description so 
you can check out the one that I have otherwise   I do like the platform I do like how they have it 
set up I do like how they give you tips and stuff   based on the information of what's happening but 
at the same time don't get too wrapped up in like   okay as long as I have stable glucose my goal is 
fat loss I'm gonna lose the fat because at the end   of the day the amount of food you eat matters 
probably the most the type of Food Matters too   right the type of foods matter too but some foods 
that spike your glucose is not bad for fat loss   it can still actually help you lose fat right and 
I'm proof of that so thanks guys for watching this   video you're going to want to check out this 
video next and I'll see you in the next one

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